Fish and Fishing 



cedar, or pearl. By these last two methods much 

 larger fish are captured than those caught in bays 

 and channels at flood tide. 



The Pacific squeteague, popularly known on 

 the California coast as the white sea-bass, ranges 

 the coast even to Canada, and is most common 

 from south of Magdalena Bay to Santa Barbara; 

 and like the Eastern species is very 

 Squeteaffue uncertain in its movements and 

 equally so in biting. The season may 

 be said to be from May 1st to July, or even Au- 

 gust; some seasons the fish is rare and will not bite; 

 again it comes in numbers and affords sport long 

 to be remembered. Charles F. Holder records, 

 with a fellow-angler, taking ten of these fish, all 

 over fifty pounds in weight, between 9 and 12 

 o'clock, not 100 feet from the beach in Avalon 

 Bay. He further states: "A large school entered 

 the bay and remained ten days, affording ex- 

 cellent sport. In our boat my companion and 

 I each hooked a large fish at the same moment; 

 one rushed ahead, the other darted astern, and 

 we were at once involved in a most spirited tug- 

 of-war which resulted in the loss of one fish. At 

 one time twenty or thirty small boats were fishing, 

 and sometimes half of these would have 'bass' 

 hooked at the same time; the scene, as the big fish 



towed the boats about, the cries and shouts 

 F^lf^ as lines were parted, or rods succumbed, 



being a most animated one. I recall one 

 rush of a bass hooked by a lady, which towed the 

 boat almost entirely across the bay before the fish 

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